Cole Nicole LeFavour is an activist, an award-winning journalist, and a writer whose stories and essays have appeared in The North American Review, Idaho Wilderness Considered, Confluence, Sawtooth-White Cloud, among others. In 2004, LeFavour became the first opening LGBTQ+ member of the Idaho Legislature, serving as an Idaho State Senator for 8 years and leading multiple acts of civil disobedience at the State Capitol.